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Welcome to my personal Website! Here you can find information about my research and my professional activities.
In short: I am Deputy Head of ZEW's (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) Inequality and Public Policy group. I am affiliated with the University of Mannheim as a member of the Bonn-Mannheim Collaborative Research Center TR 224 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). I am also a member of the Vfs Standing Field Committee on Macroeconomics, a research fellow at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) and at GLO (Global Labor Organization). I was a member of the Greek National Minimum Wage Experts Committee from 2022-2025. Previously I was a (tenured) economist at the Bank of Italy and an external lecturer at the European Business School.
I received my PhD from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid under the supervision of Nezih Guner.
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Research interests: Labor Economics, Family Economics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics.
Forthcoming presentations:
June 5-6, 2025 UC3M Economics PhD Alumni Conference, Getafe
June 9, 2025 CUNEF brownbag seminar, Madrid
June 24, 2025 RTG research seminar, Dortmund
August 18-22, 2025 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society, Seoul
Forthcoming discussions:
April 7, 2025 MannheimTaxation Campus Meeting
April 7, 2025 Panelist in Search and Matching in Macro and Finance (SaMMF) Virtual Seminar Series
June 12-13, 2025 1st Banca d'Italia Annual Research Conference on Monetary Policy, Rome
Contact Information:
Research Group Inequality and Public Policy
ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim
L 7, 1 - Room 316
68161 Mannheim, GERMANY
Tel. +49(0)621 1235 296Â
Email: adefi81(at)yahoo.gr Â
adamopoulou(at)uni-mannheim.de
effrosyni.adamopoulou(at)zew.de
Watch a short video about my research (Eating Habits, Food Consumption and Health: The Role of Early Life Experiences)
Watch my webinar at CReAM (WP The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption)
Watch my presentation at Universidad Torcuato di Tella (WP Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions) and the discussion by M. Beraja.
My interview in Augsburger Allgemeine: What can Germany learn from Greece? (in German), English translation.